Back in 1992, I was responsible for installing an engineering computer system at the company I worked for. The computers we selected were Silicon Graphics Indigo UNIX workstations. These came with a pre-installed ‘demo’ flight sim program that included a Cessna, F16 and a few other aircraft.
There wasn’t much to it - one airport, a few mountains; but it did have some real advanced features - The scenery (such as it was) was all shaded 3d objects, the flying was extremely smooth and fluid (for the time) and - as a networked system - the two of us who were system administrators - could dogfight each other during our lunch break!
Of course, each of the computers cost as much as a pretty nice family car at the time. Here’s a image from Wikipedia. Anyone else remember this?
